Medical book award 2019 winners

BMA medical book of the year

Travel Medicine, 4th Edition

Authors: Jay S Keystone, Phyllis E Kozarsky, Bradley A Connor, Hans D Nothdurft, Marc Mendelson, and Karin Leder.

Summary

Travel Medicine, 4th Edition, includes not only tourism and business travellers, but also incorporates volunteerism, medical care, migration, ecotourism, and more. Find out more about the book.

Published by Elsevier, December 2018
ISBN: 9780323546966

Special category winners

The BMA Student Textbook Award - Macleod's Clinical Examination, 14th edition

Authors: Alastair Innes, Anna Dover, and Karen Fairhurst.

This book’s content is to assist clinicians develop the consultation skills which they will require to employ to elicit a clear patient history, and the practical skills they will need to use to detect clinical signs of disease.

Published by Elsevier Ltd, June 2018
ISBN: 9780702069932

BMA Young Authors Prize - Medicine in a Minute

Authors: Amar Vaswani and Hwan Juet Khaw

The book covers the fundamentals of clinical medicine at the undergraduate level. It is written and laid out in a style that enables students to study and understand the material in a time-efficient manner. It comprises twelve chapters, each one covering one of the major fields of undergraduate medicine. 

Published by Scion Publishing Ltd, October 2018
ISBN: 9781907904981

BMA President's Award (chosen by Professor Raanan Gillon) - Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children: From disagreement to dissensus

Authors: Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu 

This book critically examines the ethical questions at the heart of disputes about medical treatment for children. They use the case of Charlie Gard, which reached global attention in 2017, as a springboard to a wider discussion about the rights of parents, the harms of treatment, and the vital issue of limited resources. 

Published by Elsevier Ltd, September 2018
ISBN: 9780702077814

BMA Council Chair's Choice (chosen by Dr Chaand Nagpaul) - Cancer Prevention and Screening

Authors: Rosalind A Eeles, Christine D Berg, and Jeffrey S Tobias

This book includes thorough but not overwhelming background information on epidemiology, cancer prevention, and cancer screening, for quick reference. 

Published by Wiley, October 2018
ISBN: 9781118990872

BMA Reviewer of the Year

Dr Helen Dormand - consultant cardiologist with subspecialty interest in imaging, NHS Borders and Lothian

Find out more about Dr Helen Dormand.

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